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...This analyses sales of unique works at Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Phillips, with data from ArtTactic....
...Dealer Nick Maclean says that bidding at Christie’s on Francis Bacon’s “Landscape near Malabata, Tangier” (1963) — which went to adviser Francis Outred for a within-estimate £16.8mn (£19.6mn with fees) —...
...Political scientist Francis Fukuyama — no stranger to incorrect future-gazing — complained that Turchin’s approach was “not very useful in making short-term predictions”....
...Over the past year, John Aristotle Phillips and I have placed a lot of bets....
...Francis deSouza, who departed Illumina unceremoniously as chief executive, will not stand for re-election. Hargreaves Lansdown has appointed Alison Platt as board chair....
...The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology was created last month; Sir Paul Nurse, Nobel laureate and director of the Francis Crick Institute in London, has published his long-awaited review of...
...Auerbach, now 91, was an associate of Francis Bacon and is a contemporary of Lucian Freud and David Hockney....
...The space has been rethought by London-based architect Alex Cochrane, with plaster roundels of artists Louis-François Roubiliac, Hans Holbein the Younger and Francis Leggatt Chantrey overlooking the wares...
...In the plush living room of the new Capella Sydney hangs a large-scale reproduction of Francis Fowkes’ famous 1788 map of the British settlement at Sydney Cove....
...takes place on 30 June Bacon’s study of Lucian FreudSotheby’s, London Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud enjoyed a famously fierce friendship – until it inevitably fell apart....
...Sotheby’s scored the highest price of the season — £23mn (£24.3mn with fees) for Francis Bacon’s “Three Studies for Portrait of Henrietta Moraes” (1963, third-party guarantee), though this was below its...
...Highlights include Picasso’s 1952 Vase Aux Chèvres, Francis Bacon’s Study For a Bullfight No 1 and Antoine-Louis Barye’s bronze sculpted Tigre Qui Marche. 22 April; sothebys.com De Beers Cullinan Blue Diamond...
...Europe’s evening auctions of modern and contemporary art brought in a solid £311mn (£370mn with fees) at Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Phillips between June 28 and 30, yet showed signs of market fatigue....
...Chief executive Stephen Brooks said on Monday that “We at Phillips unequivocally condemn the invasion of Ukraine . . ....
...This makes the set “not only incredibly rare but also historically relevant”, according to Phillips....
...Only the Russian-owned Phillips auction house, which is donating some £5.8mn to the Ukrainian Red Cross, ventured a stronger statement to “unequivocally condemn” the Putin regime....
...His direct, incisive portraits, and those of his colleagues — Neil Kenlock, chronicling the Black Panther movement; Charlie Phillips’ crystalline close-ups of mixed race couples in Notting Hill; Horace Ové...
...While many Welsh holiday-home buyers will spend less than £300,000 on a property, many English buyers will spend £450,000- £650,000, says Kirsty Johnson of estate agent John Francis....
...“Buyers in the Asia Pacific region are younger than ever, high spenders and very engaged digitally,” said Francis Belin, Christie’s president in the region....
...Data from Pi-eX finds that sales at Sotheby’s, Christie’s and Phillips, the largest international auction houses, hit a total $5.8bn by June 30, up from $1.75bn in 2020....
...The second incident, also on August 9, resulted in the deaths of Joan Connolly, 44, Daniel Teggart, 44, Noel Phillips, 19, and Joseph Murphy, 41 near an army barracks....
...Noble Francis: The second half of 2023 is expected to see a rise in UK GDP as inflation eases....
...Public sales fared worst at Christie’s — down 38.4 per cent for the year — with Sotheby’s and Phillips falling 14.4 and 11.8 per cent respectively....
...“Migration Series” finally sold, after much harrying on her part, jointly to the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, where the series can be seen today....
...In January, US poet Rowan Ricardo Phillips releases his first UK book, Living Weapon (Faber), while Picador opens the year with Annie Freud’s Hiddensee....
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